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* AdvertisedExtra: Cluck the Duck was suppose to be a main character in the series but was dropped after the 1st season and only appeared in 3 episodes. Yet he was in the theme song for season 1.

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* AdvertisedExtra: Cluck the Duck was suppose to be a main character in the series but was dropped after the 1st season and only appeared in 3 2 episodes. Yet he was remained in the theme song for season 1.original intro sequences up until 1984.



* EverybodyCries: In the Easter Special, most of the gang is left in tears when Mudfoot is hospitalized due to Rudy's unintentional prank.

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* EverybodyCries: In the Easter Special, most of the gang is left in Albert, Russell, Bill, and Weird Harold shed tears when Mudfoot is hospitalized due to Rudy's unintentional prank.prank. Rudy follows suit after confessing that it was his fault.



* LaughTrack: There is a laugh track after some jokes, but it's used sparingly. In the Easter Special, due to its [[DarkerAndEdgier more serious story]] about Mudfoot being injured, the laugh track isn't heard until two-thirds of the way through the special when Fat Albert is sneaking through the hospital so he can visit Mudfoot.

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* LaughTrack: There is a laugh track after some jokes, but it's used sparingly. In the Easter Special, due to its [[DarkerAndEdgier more serious story]] about Mudfoot being injured, the laugh track isn't heard until two-thirds of the way through the special when Fat Albert is sneaking through the hospital so he can visit Mudfoot. Certain volumes of the 2002 home video releases by Time Life utilize alternate prints of early episodes with no laugh track.



* ScareEmStraight: One 1980s syndication episode dealt with a terrifying "Scared Straight"-style tour of a prison.[[note]]Furthermore, the episode itself had ''uncensored swearing'' (which Bill Cosby himself warns about at the beginning of the episode).[[/note]]

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* {{ReCut}}: A few episodes from the 1973 season (namely "Mister Big Time", "The Newcomer" and "What Does Dad Do?") had the live-action Cosby segments re-shot in 1984 when the series went into syndication. The syndicated cuts were included on the Time-Life DVDs from 2002, but subsequent releases use the original broadcast versions.
* ScareEmStraight: One 1980s episode from the 1984-85 syndication episode season dealt with a terrifying "Scared Straight"-style tour of a prison.[[note]]Furthermore, the episode itself had ''uncensored swearing'' (which Bill Cosby himself warns about at the beginning of the episode).[[/note]]



* TeamPet: The gang originally had a pet duck as seen in the opening, but [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome the duck was dropped for some reason.]] He only appeared in 3 episodes in the series.

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* TheTag: The 1972-73 episodes would often end with a short sequence before the credits after the closing musical number featuring Fat Albert and one of the kids (usually Bill, but sometimes Donald or Mushmouth) reflecting on the episode's plot before closing out with some form of stand-up joke. Sometimes, there would be two closing tags, with the first one including a reprisal of the song featured. While the 2002 DVD releases by Time Life leave them intact, most of these tags were cut from the subsequent 2004 DVD masters by [=UrbanWorks=] and Classic Media. However, a few episodes, like "Creativity", "Moving", and "Fish Out of Water" still have them, even though the 1984 syndication prints are utilized.
* TeamPet: The gang originally had a pet duck as seen in the original opening, but [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome the duck was dropped for some reason.]] He only appeared in 3 two episodes in of the series.first season.

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